Quebec Students Need Democracy Aids

It is hard to talk unemotionally about those revolting students in Quebec. Were they for real? As allegedly mature students did they not realize that what they were doing was akin to complete anarchy? However, note that, between revolting protests they talked often about wanting to improve democracy. Their wild, unconstrained method was surely the wrong way to do that.
Well, what if in Quebec  they had a proper form of Direct Democracy?  Democracy is supposed to represent the views of the majority. Then, if their views about the proposed increase in their tuition fees had a majority opinion, that could be readily determined; without disrupting the whole society, or breaking windows.  And, the government would have to let a referendum be pursued if a specified number of citizens (say 5%) signed an appropriate petition. The students readily could have organized that detail. And all of Quebec would have to follow the results of the ensuing question.
And the students could have been very pleased that their efforts would have been civilized, and more importantly, worthwhile, as deemed by the majority of their fellow citizens.
Caving in by the new Marois government simply puts off even less civilized behaviour, by other unconstrained pressure groups, for other matters, in the future.